[000:00:00;00] a, a with ukraine refuses to accept the russians plan for evacuating civilians from ru paul, where an estimated 130000 people remain stuck amid intense fighting. this is my vest, my cover. i'm not going to be wearing it because it's hard to sleep instead. i think it's going to say, well more or less suitable pillow party reports from the outskirts of g of where russian and ukrainian forces are getting ready for a fight. farmers truckers and a trade unions to take to the streets of europe to protest against soaring prices

due to sanctions imposed on russia over the ukraine conflict. and r t obtains evidence that the u. s. was pushing ukraine to lower russia into a conflict and spent millions of dollars on preparing ukrainian military forces. with by kathy lived direct from our studios in moscow. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. glad have you with us as we covered the latest in the war in ukraine. now russia ledges that ukrainian forces have brought about a humanitarian catastrophe and marble. as an estimated, 130000 civilians remain trapped in the city amid intense fighting in recent days. the numerous buildings have been destroyed as civilians, hyde, in basements, and struggle to obtain food and water due to disrupted supplies just by daily

attempts by the russian military to secure safe zones for residents to evacuate. russia says ukrainian forces have been effectively holding local, hostage in their homes, preventing them from leaving the city. those who have managed to escape have told harrowing stories, polish when the troops were on the move, they started shooting through the my grandmother and i was wounded. she was hitting the leg and me in the arm and we ran into the cellar. during the embodiment a concrete slab collapsed onto my father and my child. my father wasn't even taken out from the daybreak and my child was screaming for 5 hours. he was taken out later by neighbors who brought him to us but, but my father recently underwent surgery. i'm not sure where he is or whether he can walk. about 60000 people managed to evacuate. the embattled city at the weekend rushes military says it's opening more humanitarian corridors on monday, both to russia and ukrainian side, and even promised to spare the lives of ukrainian forces if they lay down their

weapons and leaves. but in response to moscow's initiative, to provide, say, for it's to force civilians, ukraine has emphasized its forces will continue to fight for the city. the russian and chinese journalists covering the battle for my you have allegedly come under fire from ukrainian artillery with one chinese reporter wounded with the journalists. say that they were walking on the street when they heard the sound of an explosion. a shell landed just 50 meters from them, forcing them to the ground and then 6 shelter. meanwhile, kiev has been preparing for a siege by russian forces with residents fleeing and mass end of the government. mobilizing troops from mayor italy critical has surveyed the aftermath of alleged strikes on the korean capital within a removal and the, the building has destroyed windows are blown out completely, cars are burned up. thank god,

no one was killed. several people were hospitalized. it was intended to frighten people, but that won't happen. ukrainians are not afraid. these actions, insight, more hate and a stronger desire to oppose the aggressor. russian forces have reportedly been gathering on the outskirts of kids and a parent push to take your cranium. capital. artic correspondent you got done of comments from a russian army encampment there. so was come right behind rushes. positions outside key of we are literally behind the line of contact. we've come here to spend the night, the 1st time we're doing so, but this time we'll try to show you what it is like here. so we're going to switch to filming a night mode. so that you can see everything because the nights is usually when it's most busy here actually. so we'll see if it holds true now as well. so here's a little glimpse into how we're going to be spending the night here. this is the back of a russian military truck several sleeping bags because obviously i'm not alone here

. my crews sleeping here with me. this is my address, my kevlar vests. i'm, i'm not going to be wearing it because it's hard to sleep instead. i think it's going to serve as a well more or less suitable philip a very heavy gun site has brookins just at the perimeter of our can't be 100 meters away. so i guess was quite expect to leave the 1st time we wake up to hearing his,

the incoming shots from the ukranian sub photos and now the russians are turning to 5. normally after that, the artillery comes next. ah, well i guess any sort of comment would be redundant here. you could hear everything yourself sleepless nights for key of sleepless nights, full of well troops on both sides of the front. we're gonna try and get some shut eye and head back. don't eat meat to beat russia. that is the message from germany's agriculture minister who just happens to be a vegetarian, as he suggests what his countrymen can do to pose the conflict in ukraine. germans have been panic, buying groceries over fears of shortages caused by supply chain disruptions due to

the war in ukraine. there have been rumors about deficits of major food items, including meat, sugar, cooking oil, and flour. the country's agricultural minister puts the blame squarely on russia. we have to buy responsibly only what we need. no one should hold anything at home, no toilet paper, no sunflower oil, otherwise prices will skyrocket. peyton's insidious strategy is that there is a shortage of products and he needs photos of empty shelves. i advise you not to unnecessarily weaponized his propaganda. despite the fact that i'm a vegetarian, i will not preach that everyone should switch to vegetarianism. but let's put it this way, eating less meat would be a contribution against mister putin. the, you know, our considers russia to be a favorable nation for food supplies, putting the country on par with iran and north korea. we heard from a research fellow at the university of hamburg, who says ordinary people are paying

a high price for their government's position on the conflict. the european union that imposed sanctions and was european union. and that we vote the most favored nation status. that is an illegal act under international law. they did it anyway. and now we the citizens of europe and germany. we have to sacrifice their responsibility for their mistake. many tactics in germany already have close due to the rising prices. and if we see mass vitamin they want to put the blame on russians is all russian fall. but the truth is, and everyone sees that germans and european politicians fought for. i'm calling this ridiculous legal fashion and people my in stock today in relatively improper of europe, but certainly rules the people in poorer club of the world like in africa, was already suffering from true to insecurity. be affected by this. i mean, this is just ridiculous. the government has to respond to the needs of the people

and not just blame everyone. bad human needs, like being wall tow for, you know, helping poochie. this is ridiculous and this has to stop. and if they don't put a stop to themselves, then i'm sure that people will at the coming elections, soaring prices for food, food, and fuel, excuse me, due to the harsh sanctions against russia over the ukraine conflict. have provoked protests around europe with thousands taking to the streets, events or anger about the burden some costs or so it depends. keep of course, more in ukraine is already pushing up the energy costs across europe, whether that's impacting the price of fuel fuel costs for gas and electricity, homes and businesses. and there are also shortages of agricultural basics such as fertilize and all of this is driving up the coast old food pretty much across the board. now in you didn't have been protests over the last few days. people taking the streets to demand action phone,

they governments we saw in spain immigrate thousands of individuals on the streets that were growing social discontentment. over the spiraling cost of living in germany and $82.00 truckers were out on the roads. they were furious. so for the price of petrol, saying it's pretty much putting them out of business and increase farmers voice. thank concerns, over the anger of high production costs, which are a result of the sanctions. oh, we demand that farmers don't pay for the war in ukraine. most fertilizers are imported from russia and bella rouge and we don't want farmers to bear the increased costs. we want the production cost to be cheap so we can cultivate our fields and feet are animals. laportia, the full interest of you, kathy, for going on with this, isn't justified. speaking about a war is something different. the fuel price hawks are unfair and unrelated tool in this is something else that with

a lawyer about their polio take on that. that's what gets outrageous for politicians to destroy our transport business with pointless taxes. if you take into account a fuel price of more than 2 euros, with a euro, 60 or euro 70 in taxes like on think they destroy our entire existence. they destroy us. that's it. lies and deceit law to hold it management. now they said course is likely to heat quite low pressure on politicians. and from the e, you have at least until the last few days shown this pretty solid wall of strength as they've unveiled sanction of sanction against russia. because of that invasion of ukraine, but the cracks are beginning to show. we've heard from poland and the baltic states were really keen for what they describe is the maximum pain against russia against the kremlin. then other you countries such as germany, italy and hungry seem to be pretty wary about this. and for those countries that

want this pro punishing 5th round of sanctions. they say that all trade with russia must, and poland is proposing to add a trade blockade to this package of sanctions as soon as possible, including both of its seaports, but also a ban on land trade. fully cutting off rushes trade would further force russia to consider whether it would be better to stop this cruel war. well, that might not work for countries such as germany has a big issue because of its heavy reliance on russian energy imports. and even the country's economic and energy minister has recently won the cutting energy supplies just immediately overnight would bring mass unemployment. and it would also bring poverty to century what is the use economic engine at with the suggestion as a result, that people would just simply be unable to heat their homes. and that's something that they don't want to see. we have heard that germany has been assigned a new deal for a gas with cattle,

but duck kind of and you won't take of the dependency on russia immediately, so that's not going to happen overnight. then elsewhere in the you, we've been seeing specifics, wobbles between countries take france and spain, for example. the 2 are apparently locked horns over this ideal plans for new gas pipeline at that wouldn't link the 2 countries at these plans had previously been put on. i seen as being unprofitable, but they've been raised again as a result of the current war. but as that views change, spain, the ease, husing, francis dragging its heels when it comes to the investment that's needed, that pipe in the same way that we have been struggling to accelerate electrical interconnections. what cannot be is that the pressure to accelerate this infrastructure stays from the pyrenees down. because on the other side of the pyrenees, a fairly large investment is needed to connect that pipeline of gas to the trunk

system. and the use also having a bit of trouble when it comes to seeing eye, to eye of the who should be on the sanctions list. now we know that the u. k, which is no, and the you, an estate oligarchy, can only get a passcode on it. lists, but the eas decided not to follow a c to why you may be asking whether it's been suggested that the found of the major metal producing ian plus group has got huge assets in countries like austria and also in cyprus. and there are concerns freezing his assets and could actually have repercussions that so not so keen to do that. sanctions have to be approved by all members of the block. if one says no, the sanctions don't go ahead. and what we're really seeing now is off to that a ritual strength. there is no limit to how much pain individual countries won't to endure as a result of the war in ukraine. meanwhile, fighting martial law ukraine's president zalinski has temporarily banned 11

opposition party saying that they are too pro russian. he even accused them of collaborating with moscow. will you got finished bully activities by politicians aimed at discord and collaboration will not succeed, but they will face a tough response. it will. that is why the national security and defense council of ukraine has decided that given the large scale war unleashed by the russian federation and links between it and some political structures, the activities of a number of political parties is suspended for the period of the martial law politicians major opposition party. the 4 live platform swiftly denounced the ban as unlawful. russian senior officials have also called it a violation of civil rights. this decision has no legitimate grounds. all accusations are made up by the government to justify their inadequate actions. the only explanation for this move by the authorities as an illegal political takeover and a bad faith political fight against their main opponent. europe, for its part,

is hiding its head in the sand. we were right to leave the european council. what is the point of this organization if it does not fulfil its main task? when it stands aside while observing obvious violations of ukrainian citizens writes, zelinski has finally figured out the intricacies of true democracy. the most democratic president in modern ukraine has taken another step towards western ideals of democracy, pierre emanuel tallman of the french institute of geo politics. questions whether ukraine's leadership is respecting freedom of opinion in the country. yes, regime under a prison dis see of mr. zelinski order would even pass as shown, but sir, is the fate state and we were a huge pressure on the, on the freedom of opinion, there is no freedom opinion there way or would it pass or the june that is to were eliminated in ukraine because i turned at you opinions, there were assassinations,

zalinski is or is image is used in the west as a sort of the role for to damage sure. of a reputation of russia complete disinformation campaign in the west about mr. zelinski also, or some media last year or so spoke about to the link of mr. zelinski in pandora papers. we've huge corruption cases and no, it doesn't exist anymore. nobody speaks about that. any more. a reputed cia offshoot, the national endowment for democracy has allegedly been deleting records about financing, ukrainian military forces. an archived web page purports to show the organization has provided more than $22000000.00 to ukraine since 2014. that's a mid claims that the u. s. trained members of ukraine's controversial 8. our battalion ortiz, mary for national,

takes it up. they say russia invaded ukraine. they say russia is the aggressor, but work in here in the la guns republic for weeks. we found many things that tell a different story. one discovery was made at a former base of the notorious. i'd. our battalion, it appeared in 2014 as an armed volunteer group that fought on key if side, but slowly fell out of its control. too many weapons money and impunity did their job. now it's part of ukraine's ground forces. those roots have a sinister foreign influence. this is what was found among other things here at the i'd our battalion base, a very interesting piece of literature titled, tutorial for participants of russian ukrainian war. he was published in 2021. ukraine's defense ministry is among publishers. but here we see something more interest in national endowment for democracy. america is non governmental organization, allegedly affiliated with cia,

it actually says they was re published last here. so apparently there was previous version of this book. there are multiple chilion facts about they statement from last year. if the title russian ukrainian war refers to the 80 or bombing of don bos it chooses to ignore that the conflict was not russian ukrainian, but ukrainian ukrainian with the east of the country being shelled by its own government in kiev. and if the title haines at no age of an upcoming war with russia, which would conventionally break out a year later, in february 2022. this raises even more disturbing questions about washington's role in for meant in the current conflict than there is the central role played in it by the infamous ca offshoot, the national endowment for democracy or n e d. instead of having to say, i am going around behind the scenes and trying to manipulate the process secretly by inserting money here and instructions and so forth. they have no, a psychic,

which is this national endowment for democracy. and loss of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the cia. we should not have to do this kind of work cover, lee. it would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the cia. we saw that in the sixty's, and that's why it has been discontinued. we have not had the capability of doing this, and that's why the endowment was created. it seems that whenever they see i couldn't, but wanted to manipulate the process. the n a d has been there to help for the last 4 decades. what finally drew public attention to ned's meddling and foreign elections was an aborted attempt to provide opposition. candidate, violetta chamorro with $3000000.00 in funding for her 1989 election campaign against nicaragua. president daniel ortega in 1988. for example, the endowment had given $600000.00 to organizations working to defeat chalet and leader a gusto penetrate. ned was involved in similar activities in 1990 in czechoslovakia,

meaning interfering in elections worldwide, and nurturing uprisings globally. a number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reform. sweeping the region received training and financing from groups like the international republican institute, the national democratic institute, and freedom house. they were created by congress and are financed through the national endowment for democracy, training and financing, financing and training. yeah, news has made a series of reports quoting former u. s. intelligence officials revealing the cia secret training initiative for you quentin in special operations forces that began attention in 2015 as part of it ca paramilitaries had even secretly traveled to east in ukraine to assist forces loyal to p as in their fight against the don bus the c i, a operatives taught the ukranian counterparts,

the best skills for regular warfare. we tried to really focus on operational planning than really hard military skills like long range marksmanship, not just the capacity to do it, but to know how to do it on a battlefield. there are many videos that appear to show i'd our members been trained by instructors from nature countries that ukraine can hardly afford without support. and here's 1st hand testimony. in front of the instructors came from denmark, canada, the u. k, and the u. s. so loudly, they taught us infantry tactics. let y'all know, but 1st we met all the participants sooner than on the 1st day. we learned how to ambush over move. i spent a total of 2 years doing the training. there was a father yell at his hollow for years long before rushes operations on bus. and there is a part about the financing to this man says he was in the groups, lawyers cast, but his salary was far from low for the region mccord position every month. i received a $1000.00 salary and i also got a $6000.00 bonus,

whereas minner christopher teacher about that. let's go back to the book. there was a whole list of tasks that the ukrainian military would get paid extra for well paid, like $15000.00 u. s. dollars per brigade for accomplishing a combat mission successfully. $5000.00 for destroying an airplane or $3000.00 doors for destroyed armored vehicle. the question is paid by who moscow says it has proved ukraine was planning a mass military attack on the don bus in february, march this year. here's ukraine's former premier fateful decisions were made the day before the start of the war to exterminate the russian speaking population in don. this, the korean army under the leadership of the nationalist battalions with hiring to start a military operation in the numbers of february 25th. evidence upon evidence that moscow's operation was to prevent caves. imminent vast strikes on russian speakers in ukraine,

leading to dramatically more civilian casualties. murray phenomena arte from the la guns people's republic militants from abroad. who, who share the neo nazi sentiments of the ukrainian far right have been rushing to join ukraine's foreign legion, including fighters from brazil, raising concerns about extremist views in their homeland ortiz, their patrol reports the distance between ki, of, and rio de janeiro is almost 11000 kilometers that's further than tokyo from london . so perhaps you'd be a bit surprised to know that a group of right wing supporters of brazilian president pulse an arrow from brazil obviously joined the ranks of militias in ukraine to defend the key of an motherland. brazilian missionaries in this environment con, could then moment of fame and glory as it was a great reality show. i think that's what happens. and we have to understand our

era, just south ideology, how my, of our era and how this social media, how they did this. so show a how depressed is presenting ukrainian in the western world? i mean, i, there is a kind of a to ting as a lance, he and his followers around the world as he rose off a novo calls. so it's is kind of environment, it is very strong. and to put many people shown themselves to fighting is traveling alongside with if that's, that's what's happening. their impulse to save ukraine from putin seemed to diminish. after a compound housing, foreign armed pro key of volunteers was destroyed by

a russian air strike the lads him. he's got his 1st. besides louis dionte, there were special forces from all over the world, though from france, from all over europe, south korea, chile, the usa, canada. and simply the information we have is that they all died. you guys don't understand what it's like to have a fighter jet fire and miscellaneous. thank god i got out beforehand. perhaps real war turn out to be quite different from the street protests where right wing activists would take on police. but why would sympathizers of ukrainian nationalist movements appear in brazil and the 1st place? well, 1st of all, you gotta realize how serious the political strife between the white and the left and brazil has been in recent years with the impeachment of former left wing president dome a roof and then the rise of white wing. i can also narrow some observers are pointing out how even before that the far right in brazil used ukraine as

a role model where 1st a nationalist movement toppled a government and then the new authorities went on to rid the country of pretty much everything communist. that's how the term you coordinate using brazil was born as some, some groups of the right wing use it this expression in order to say that they would like to expect to expel from the political life. the last is groups. this expression was very famous during dick who did that to that 2014, who did that in ukraine alike in kiev. you quoted isaac, brazil, hasn't ever led to government coups or civil wars being started. but the appearance of ukrainian nationalist symbols, some was an apparent nazi background at st demos has become

a cause for concern and the south american nation set aside is demonstrating that that around $500.00 nancy groups in brazil bringing together some think like $10000.00 people there was an enormous growth during the both scenarios. goldman scenes 2019. some of these groups come from south and brazil where there is an important ukranian community. several of its members belong to malicious or security forces. where for right, a dollar g is very strong. this is the environment in the week there scenarios there scenarios, willing to fight alongside the key of goldman denied states and then they are re, cupid as if it were, this is it's battle against communism. oh ho, this nasty group is mo, at dan jose. and they have really

a very important and mobilization capacity. me sarah winter, her see me. so to say includes being a member of the feminist group for men of ukrainian origin, what she's been thrown out of eventually. however, i also questioned the numerous magazines with the figure of hitler that she has at home, sarah, sad that she admires hitler as a person that he was a good husband, that he loved animals, but that she doesn't admire the public hitler. i found it a bit strange. also reportedly part of her experience meeting ports. wielding march is like the ones led by neo nazis at new grant, shooting fireworks at the brazilian supreme court being arrested more than 20 times and traveling to ukraine to learn from the local all to a write. a police prob, found many more disturbing links between brazil's radicals and ukraine's extremists

. ah, it's all had extremely inflammatory, makes to say the least and it's unclear if the shelling of the compound that i mentioned at the very beginning. we'll scare or we energize brazilian. want to be radicals. does it for the news this, our stay with us throughout the day here on our to international as we have more coverage of the war in ukraine. ah,